Hold the hose real tight and get ready for a real fight

by JC Fletcher { Jun 22nd 2007 at 10:30AM }

A new developer called Epicenter Games is developing a non-violent firefighting action-puzzle game for the Wii, called Real Heroes: Firefighters. The title should help prevent confusion with those other Real American Heroes. Real Heroes casts players as a new firefighter in a busy station, and, of course, uses the Wiimote to simulate a fire hose.

The game makes use of what Epicenter calls "Thinking Fire," which will ~~totally beat you at Othello~~ react unexpectedly and semi-randomly to your actions. The game doesn't have a publisher yet, but they're hoping for a release in late 2008.

Tags: epicenter, fire, fire hose, firefighter, firefighting, FireHose, hose, nintendo, nintendo wii, NintendoWii, real heroes, RealHeroes, wii

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Aj Vaynerchuk @ Jun 22nd 2007 10:36AM

A firefighter game could be pretty fun. As long as the situations don't get stale and boring I see some potential here. It kind of reminds me of Trauma Center and Cooking Mama in terms of taking a "role."

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vidGuy @ Jun 22nd 2007 10:50AM

Man, I totally predicted this game when the remote was first announced! I wish google could help me find it a little quicker. I suggested that they'd be making games along the lines of Wii Careers; you'd get to play as a firefighter, a police officer, a fisherman, a surgeon, a dentist, a racecar driver, etc. All would be packaged in a $30-$50 game that would play like WarioWare but with games that lasted 2 to 5 minutes instead of several seconds.

Jonathan Tran @ Jun 22nd 2007 10:57AM

This sounds great. Hey, Burning Rangers was apparently a great game about firefighters.

Firefighters with jetpacks.

Yeah as long as it has a good difficulty curve and is interesting (maybe some cat rescue missions, or it could be funny somehow), I would get this. You could even have multiplayer for tougher blazes. And you could go into the building and chop through doors with the axe, or something.